Blood That Flows
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Novel 8.
Lina: Why go through all the trouble to get me to cast the Giga Slave? You can cast the spell yourself and cause it to run amok. You're going down with the world either way. Why me?
Hellmaster: *Weak smile* I'd like to avoid the trouble if I could. Unlike lesser and brass demons that inhabit this world, we pureblood Mazoku are what you call Spiritual Life Forms. For us, calling upon power that draws from other beings is the same as rejecting our own powers. It's suicide. We can cast Shamanistic spells for a particular purpose, but drawing power for a spell from other high-ranking demons, or that being, would put our own existence in jeopardy before we could complete the spell.
Lina: Why go through all the trouble to get me to cast the Giga Slave? You can cast the spell yourself and cause it to run amok. You're going down with the world either way. Why me?
Hellmaster: *Weak smile* I'd like to avoid the trouble if I could. Unlike lesser and brass demons that inhabit this world, we pureblood Mazoku are what you call Spiritual Life Forms. For us, calling upon power that draws from other beings is the same as rejecting our own powers. It's suicide. We can cast Shamanistic spells for a particular purpose, but drawing power for a spell from other high-ranking demons, or that being, would put our own existence in jeopardy before we could complete the spell.
And now!
A couple of Omakes.
Alternate Ending to Blood That Flows - Jump.
"Hey! Phibrizzo-wannabe! Take THIS!" Lina pulled out a pair of pointy red-tinted sunglasses from somewhere and put them on her face before holding her right arm high into the air, gold and black energy formed around her arm as it became tall, then wide and spiraled into something big.
"That... is a big drill." Death Bringer stared as the Chaos energies created a giant drill, one which was gold with black spiral energy around the outside of it.
"Chaos... DRILL... BREAAAAAKKKEEERRR!!!" Lina yelled before rushing forward, the gold power spinning, before slamming into Death Bringer, turning his physical and astral body into swiss-cheese. What was left of him was absorbed into the Sea of Chaos due to the rift that Chrono, Yuuno and Shamal had opened up.
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Vita's first period
"What are we doing here?" Vita grumbled to Signum.
"Like I said before," Signum nodded to the building as she and Vita were in front of, "we're going to the gym so you can beat up a punching bag."
Vita grumbled as she was led into the gym and led to the punching bags. "I don't see how this is going to help me."
"Just start hitting it." Signum got behind the bag and braced it as Vita sighed. "...Not into it anymore?"
"I don't know, I just don't think..." Vita trailed off as she saw some guys laughing off to the side. She wasn't even sure what they were laughing about, but she was sure that they were laughing at her.
Though, if she had even bothered to look closely, she would have seen that they weren't even looking at her and were in fact laughing about a joke one of their friends had said.
Snarling, Vita started punching the bag. "It's just not FAIR!" She yelled, each word emphasizing a hit to the bag. "I go all my life, all of them, and because of that Demon, I'm forced to go THROUGH this?!" She hissed and Signum felt her body getting jarred from the punches Vita was landing on the bag. "Everyone thinks it's so freaking easy, don't they?"
"You're tearing the bag up."
"So WHAT?!" Vita yelled as she punched the bag with enough force that her hand broke through it. "...That's not fair at all!" She slumped to the floor and whimpered. Having a period sucked, all women went through this? "Kill me now."
Signum rolled her eyes. "Please, Hayate would be upset and you'll be back to normal in two days."
"Two days?!" Vita groaned and flopped onto her back. "How do you put up with this?"
Signum was about to answer when she heard some snickering. She looked and saw those same guys as before pointing and laughing at Vita.
"GRR! You have it easy, don't you?!" Vita shot to her feet and stormed over to them. "You can just go day in and day out and never have to put up with any of this!"
"Run along, little girl, you don't want any of this."
Vita was about to scream but Signum put a hand over her mouth. "Gentlemen, perhaps you'd be willing to put your muscles where your mouth is?" She mentally smirked as they looked at her in interest and she nodded to an unused table. "Arm wrestling, any of you against my friend here." When they started laughing, she shook her head, even as she had to struggle to keep Vita from harming them. "I guess you're nothing more than a bunch of children who can only talk big."
"Hold it right there." One of them spoke up as he frowned at them. "If you think that that little girl can beat us in arm wrestling, you're wrong."
"Prove it then." Signum normally wasn't this confrontational, but she needed to do something or Vita WAS going to seriously hurt these idiots.
"Fine!" The first one rolled his eyes and walked over to the table before sitting down and holding his arm up.
Growling, Vita walked over and sat down and grabbed his hand. "You shouldn't have laughed." She narrowed her eyes at him.
"Man, Ryo's going to mop the floor with that little girl."
"Bet?" Signum raied an eyebrow at him. "Say... 1000 yen?"
"I'm in."
"Me too."
"Same."
"SIGNUM!" Vita growled and slammed the guy's arm down in a flash. "How dare you?!"
"Well, I think that means I win."
"Ryo! You pansy! Let me take over!" One of the men growled at him before handing Signum 2000 yen. "Double or nothing."
"Yeah!" Signum blinked as several more thousands of yen were put into her hand. Oh well, if they wanted to lose all their money that badly, she wasn't going to complain about it.
"Ready to lose, little girl?"
Vita rolled her eyes as she gripped the guy's hand. "Tell me, have you ever had to wrestle a bear?"
"No." He blinked.
"Oh." She shrugged and blinked as she felt him pushing down on her arm. "...Is that all you got?" Hell, the guy was barely moving her arm. "Here, let me help." A moment later and the guy found his hand pinned under Vita's.
The girl snorted and got up. "Really? That's all you got?" No wonder Signum had held her back, she would have killed these guys.
"Let me try." A huge guy came out of nowhere, he completely towered over everyone in the room and Vita wondered how the hell she missed him before.
Sitting down, he grinned at her and held his arm up. "You ready?"
She grabbed his hand as she sat back down. "Yeah."
"Go!" They said at the same time and stared as it was actually pretty hard for the both of them to move the other one's arm.
"One last bet?" Ryo looked at Signum and held up some money. "All or nothing?"
"Fine." Signum shrugged at him. She was only out a thousand if Vita lost.
"...I need to stop hanging around Lindy so much." Signum sighed to herself. Between Lindy and Hayate, she had obviously picked up some bad habits.
"Nnngh... You're strong."
"For a girl, right?" Vita nearly snapped at him and he shook his head.
"Nope, you're just strong." He grunted and felt his arm starting to push hers down. "Looks like you're going to lose though."
"No..." Vita growled and started pushing his arm back. "I won't!"
There was a creaking sound as more people gathered around to watch. "Come on! Get her!"
"Look at her! She's so small and she's doing that."
Signum looked as more people kept giving her more money. Really, she wasn't even trying to take bets anymore, but everyone wanted to get in on the large stack of money in her hands. No one even dared betting on Vita, it was quite amusing.
"Grrr! SIGNUM!" Vita yelled and started pushing the guy's arm down. "HOW DARE YOU TAKE MONEY FOR THIS?!" She screamed and slammed the guy's arm down with enough force that the table shattered.
"I think that she won." Signum said calmly and put the money in her pocket. "We'll be leaving now."
Vita yelped as Signum grabbed her and guided her out of the gym before anyone could say anything.
(---)
"Happy?" Vita felt like crying as she looked at Signum. She couldn't believe the boob demon would take such pleasure from her pain and suffering.
Signum didn't say anything as they continued to walk.
"You are! Aren't you?" Vita started to tear up. "Just because I was always a brat and did mean things to you and the others in the past and..."
"I was never angry at you for that. You may want to apologize to Reinforce sometime, but I am not mad at you." Signum interrupted her and pulled her into a store. "Why don't you order anything off the menu?"
"Huh?" Vita blinked as she realized that she was brought into an ice cream parlor. "...You mean it?"
"I made a lot of money off of that." Signum shook her head, wondering how people had that much money just laying around. "Besides, Shamal and I come here when we have our periods."
Vita blushed hard and nodded as she was led to the counter. "Um..."
Signum rolled her eyes and ordered for Vita. "This is what Shamal gets, okay?" It didn't take long for Vita's order to get dropped in front of her.
Vita stared. It was chocolate, a lot of chocolate, and ice cream, and whipped cream, in a large bowl, that was stacked up bigger than her head. "...Shamal eats this?"
"...I help." Signum grumbled, wondering why Shamal would order something so huge to begin with. She almost started laughing as Vita tore into the treat with abandon. "Better be careful or you'll get a headache."
"MMMMGH!" Vita groaned and her eyes closed in sheer delight. "Heaven..." Tears fell out of her eyes, before she went back to eating again.
Signum shook her head, well, at least Vita was calm for a few moments.
(---)
"Come on, Vita." Signum sighed as she knocked on the door to Vita's room. Or rather, the room Vita SHOULD have been using as her room. She tended to crash in Hayate's room and sleep with their master most nights. Right after they had gotten home, she ran straight to her room, crying about something or another.
Then again, when she was on her own period, she tended to write poetry, it was weird.
The door finally opened and Signum was about to say something when she stopped and stared stared, she stared hard. "V...Vita?!" She gasped.
In front of her was Vita...
If Vita had taken her hair out of her braids and let it roll down her back freely and was wearing a white and pinky lacy and FRILLY dress while holding a cane.
"Hai! Vita-chan's feeling all icky-sicky today, so come back tomorrow to play. Now, where is Vita-chan's sheep!?"
Unseen to them, Zafira, dressed up as a sheep, was trying to slip away unnoticed. How he got dressed up as a sheep was anyone's guess, but he was, and he wanted to avoid being seen.
Vita was bad enough normally. Emotionally unstable? It made him wish that he knew more guys to hang out with.
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The first one I didn't throw into the story, because it would have detracted from the story telling.
The second one, well, I didn't think it up until AFTER I had gotten past that point.
Anyway, any similarities that it has with Kenko's Girl Days is simply a coincidence. And in the case that it's not a coincidence, then it was done on purpose.
And, I have Kenko's permission to do that anyway.
A couple of Omakes.
Alternate Ending to Blood That Flows - Jump.
"Hey! Phibrizzo-wannabe! Take THIS!" Lina pulled out a pair of pointy red-tinted sunglasses from somewhere and put them on her face before holding her right arm high into the air, gold and black energy formed around her arm as it became tall, then wide and spiraled into something big.
"That... is a big drill." Death Bringer stared as the Chaos energies created a giant drill, one which was gold with black spiral energy around the outside of it.
"Chaos... DRILL... BREAAAAAKKKEEERRR!!!" Lina yelled before rushing forward, the gold power spinning, before slamming into Death Bringer, turning his physical and astral body into swiss-cheese. What was left of him was absorbed into the Sea of Chaos due to the rift that Chrono, Yuuno and Shamal had opened up.
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Vita's first period
"What are we doing here?" Vita grumbled to Signum.
"Like I said before," Signum nodded to the building as she and Vita were in front of, "we're going to the gym so you can beat up a punching bag."
Vita grumbled as she was led into the gym and led to the punching bags. "I don't see how this is going to help me."
"Just start hitting it." Signum got behind the bag and braced it as Vita sighed. "...Not into it anymore?"
"I don't know, I just don't think..." Vita trailed off as she saw some guys laughing off to the side. She wasn't even sure what they were laughing about, but she was sure that they were laughing at her.
Though, if she had even bothered to look closely, she would have seen that they weren't even looking at her and were in fact laughing about a joke one of their friends had said.
Snarling, Vita started punching the bag. "It's just not FAIR!" She yelled, each word emphasizing a hit to the bag. "I go all my life, all of them, and because of that Demon, I'm forced to go THROUGH this?!" She hissed and Signum felt her body getting jarred from the punches Vita was landing on the bag. "Everyone thinks it's so freaking easy, don't they?"
"You're tearing the bag up."
"So WHAT?!" Vita yelled as she punched the bag with enough force that her hand broke through it. "...That's not fair at all!" She slumped to the floor and whimpered. Having a period sucked, all women went through this? "Kill me now."
Signum rolled her eyes. "Please, Hayate would be upset and you'll be back to normal in two days."
"Two days?!" Vita groaned and flopped onto her back. "How do you put up with this?"
Signum was about to answer when she heard some snickering. She looked and saw those same guys as before pointing and laughing at Vita.
"GRR! You have it easy, don't you?!" Vita shot to her feet and stormed over to them. "You can just go day in and day out and never have to put up with any of this!"
"Run along, little girl, you don't want any of this."
Vita was about to scream but Signum put a hand over her mouth. "Gentlemen, perhaps you'd be willing to put your muscles where your mouth is?" She mentally smirked as they looked at her in interest and she nodded to an unused table. "Arm wrestling, any of you against my friend here." When they started laughing, she shook her head, even as she had to struggle to keep Vita from harming them. "I guess you're nothing more than a bunch of children who can only talk big."
"Hold it right there." One of them spoke up as he frowned at them. "If you think that that little girl can beat us in arm wrestling, you're wrong."
"Prove it then." Signum normally wasn't this confrontational, but she needed to do something or Vita WAS going to seriously hurt these idiots.
"Fine!" The first one rolled his eyes and walked over to the table before sitting down and holding his arm up.
Growling, Vita walked over and sat down and grabbed his hand. "You shouldn't have laughed." She narrowed her eyes at him.
"Man, Ryo's going to mop the floor with that little girl."
"Bet?" Signum raied an eyebrow at him. "Say... 1000 yen?"
"I'm in."
"Me too."
"Same."
"SIGNUM!" Vita growled and slammed the guy's arm down in a flash. "How dare you?!"
"Well, I think that means I win."
"Ryo! You pansy! Let me take over!" One of the men growled at him before handing Signum 2000 yen. "Double or nothing."
"Yeah!" Signum blinked as several more thousands of yen were put into her hand. Oh well, if they wanted to lose all their money that badly, she wasn't going to complain about it.
"Ready to lose, little girl?"
Vita rolled her eyes as she gripped the guy's hand. "Tell me, have you ever had to wrestle a bear?"
"No." He blinked.
"Oh." She shrugged and blinked as she felt him pushing down on her arm. "...Is that all you got?" Hell, the guy was barely moving her arm. "Here, let me help." A moment later and the guy found his hand pinned under Vita's.
The girl snorted and got up. "Really? That's all you got?" No wonder Signum had held her back, she would have killed these guys.
"Let me try." A huge guy came out of nowhere, he completely towered over everyone in the room and Vita wondered how the hell she missed him before.
Sitting down, he grinned at her and held his arm up. "You ready?"
She grabbed his hand as she sat back down. "Yeah."
"Go!" They said at the same time and stared as it was actually pretty hard for the both of them to move the other one's arm.
"One last bet?" Ryo looked at Signum and held up some money. "All or nothing?"
"Fine." Signum shrugged at him. She was only out a thousand if Vita lost.
"...I need to stop hanging around Lindy so much." Signum sighed to herself. Between Lindy and Hayate, she had obviously picked up some bad habits.
"Nnngh... You're strong."
"For a girl, right?" Vita nearly snapped at him and he shook his head.
"Nope, you're just strong." He grunted and felt his arm starting to push hers down. "Looks like you're going to lose though."
"No..." Vita growled and started pushing his arm back. "I won't!"
There was a creaking sound as more people gathered around to watch. "Come on! Get her!"
"Look at her! She's so small and she's doing that."
Signum looked as more people kept giving her more money. Really, she wasn't even trying to take bets anymore, but everyone wanted to get in on the large stack of money in her hands. No one even dared betting on Vita, it was quite amusing.
"Grrr! SIGNUM!" Vita yelled and started pushing the guy's arm down. "HOW DARE YOU TAKE MONEY FOR THIS?!" She screamed and slammed the guy's arm down with enough force that the table shattered.
"I think that she won." Signum said calmly and put the money in her pocket. "We'll be leaving now."
Vita yelped as Signum grabbed her and guided her out of the gym before anyone could say anything.
(---)
"Happy?" Vita felt like crying as she looked at Signum. She couldn't believe the boob demon would take such pleasure from her pain and suffering.
Signum didn't say anything as they continued to walk.
"You are! Aren't you?" Vita started to tear up. "Just because I was always a brat and did mean things to you and the others in the past and..."
"I was never angry at you for that. You may want to apologize to Reinforce sometime, but I am not mad at you." Signum interrupted her and pulled her into a store. "Why don't you order anything off the menu?"
"Huh?" Vita blinked as she realized that she was brought into an ice cream parlor. "...You mean it?"
"I made a lot of money off of that." Signum shook her head, wondering how people had that much money just laying around. "Besides, Shamal and I come here when we have our periods."
Vita blushed hard and nodded as she was led to the counter. "Um..."
Signum rolled her eyes and ordered for Vita. "This is what Shamal gets, okay?" It didn't take long for Vita's order to get dropped in front of her.
Vita stared. It was chocolate, a lot of chocolate, and ice cream, and whipped cream, in a large bowl, that was stacked up bigger than her head. "...Shamal eats this?"
"...I help." Signum grumbled, wondering why Shamal would order something so huge to begin with. She almost started laughing as Vita tore into the treat with abandon. "Better be careful or you'll get a headache."
"MMMMGH!" Vita groaned and her eyes closed in sheer delight. "Heaven..." Tears fell out of her eyes, before she went back to eating again.
Signum shook her head, well, at least Vita was calm for a few moments.
(---)
"Come on, Vita." Signum sighed as she knocked on the door to Vita's room. Or rather, the room Vita SHOULD have been using as her room. She tended to crash in Hayate's room and sleep with their master most nights. Right after they had gotten home, she ran straight to her room, crying about something or another.
Then again, when she was on her own period, she tended to write poetry, it was weird.
The door finally opened and Signum was about to say something when she stopped and stared stared, she stared hard. "V...Vita?!" She gasped.
In front of her was Vita...
If Vita had taken her hair out of her braids and let it roll down her back freely and was wearing a white and pinky lacy and FRILLY dress while holding a cane.
"Hai! Vita-chan's feeling all icky-sicky today, so come back tomorrow to play. Now, where is Vita-chan's sheep!?"
Unseen to them, Zafira, dressed up as a sheep, was trying to slip away unnoticed. How he got dressed up as a sheep was anyone's guess, but he was, and he wanted to avoid being seen.
Vita was bad enough normally. Emotionally unstable? It made him wish that he knew more guys to hang out with.
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The first one I didn't throw into the story, because it would have detracted from the story telling.
The second one, well, I didn't think it up until AFTER I had gotten past that point.
Anyway, any similarities that it has with Kenko's Girl Days is simply a coincidence. And in the case that it's not a coincidence, then it was done on purpose.
And, I have Kenko's permission to do that anyway.
After a few moments of realizing that, yes, Lina was back, and yes, this wasn't a dream, Zelgadis and Amelia looked at each other and then at Lina and then at the rest of the group before realizing that things were getting a touch awkward for everyone.
"This is a great day indeed!" Well, apparently not for Prince Phil, the man seemed to not be deterred by anything. "We find that not only did you defeat the most evil being in the world, but you've been returned to us!" The large man started laughing as he looked them over. "This is a red letter day for enemies of justice everywhere!"
Lina mentally groaned as she listened to Phil. Not that she had anything against his enthusiasm, but it reminded her... Way too much about those stupid magic girl animes from back home.
"I guess there's one thing that bothers me, sis..." Luna spoke up and gave her sister a flat stare. "Just what the hell did you do?"
"Put the whole universe at risk because I couldn't figure any other way to defeat an enemy that could warp reality to how he sees fit." Lina said flatly. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Nanoha tense up, at least Fate was there gripping her shoulder and getting her to relax. "Do you think I'm so careless that I would use something like that for no reason?"
"Yes." Luna said flatly causing Lina to groan in dismay.
"Be nice to your sister, Luna."
"Sorry, dad." Luna looked away, uncomfortable. Despite everything, her parents still could order her around with no problem. Must have been something that parents had over their children, she decided.
"Miss Lina..." Amelia frowned softly as she looked between Lina and Shiro. "You said you were gone for sixteen years, but... How is that possible?"
"I'm not sure." Lina shook her head. "I was absorbed by the Lord of Nightmares, sank into the Sea of Chaos, and I'm lucky I came out of it at all. You tell me how it's possible." She always knew that this day was coming, she did, but she wasn't sure how to explain it all.
"I guess the Lord of Nightmares really isn't on anyone's side." Zelgadis spoke up softly as he looked at her. "Your eye wasn't gold last time I saw you. I'm guessing that the Lord of Nightmares did something to you before letting you live."
"Most likely." Lina nodded to him, glad he wasn't making a terribly big deal out of it.
"The next time you try to do something that stupid, Lina, try to give the rest of us warning so we can smack you." He deadpanned and Lina hung her head.
"I'd like to say that I could have given you warning. But you were, oh, I dunno, kind of dead at the time." Lina shook her head and looked at her daughter. "But, that's enough of that, mom, dad, you mind if Nanoha takes my old room for a little while?"
Her mother shook her head. "Not at all." She looked at Nanoha and frowned. "Oh dear, you look like you haven't gotten any good sleep, come along."
"Um..." Fate looked at Lina, who nodded, and she and Yuuno followed Nanoha out of the room.
"I think there's more to it than just letting your daughter get more sleep." Zelgadis said softly as he looked at the children. "She seemed absolutely terrified of something."
Lina wasn't sure what to say when Shiro squeezed her hand and smiled softly. "Thanks."
"Excuse me..." Zelgadis spoke softly as he looked at Arf, who was poking his arm. "Would you stop that?"
"Wow! You really are stone!" The little girl, in appearance, kept on poking Zelgadis' arm. "That's so COOL!"
"Cool?" Zelgadis blinked a few times as Arf nodded to him.
"Yeah! I mean, having a stone body would be really awesome, that way all the normal spells couldn't hurt you too much. And if you needed to be normal, you could just use transformation magic and..."
"Wait..." Zelgadis interrupted her. "Transformation magic?"
"Yep!" Arf grinned as she shifted from her child from to her adult form. "Kind of like this."
"Interesting..." Zelgadis was interested, if there was magic that could turn change a person's form voluntary, well, that was something that he had only thought Mazoku, Gods and Dragons could do that. Humans that could shape-shift?
Lina shook her head, she had almost forgotten that Zelgadis would do nearly anything to be normal again. "Hey, Zel..." A small smile came to her face as he looked at her nervously. "If we're still here in the morning," depending if she had traveled back in time or time went completely different between the pillars, "would you mind teaching these kids Astral Magic?"
He looked at her, then at the girl with orange hair and shrugged. He supposed that he could teach them some of his spells. He didn't expect them to learn much of anything, but if he could learn how to do that transformation magic, well, it would make his life a lot easier in the long run.
"This is a great day indeed!" Well, apparently not for Prince Phil, the man seemed to not be deterred by anything. "We find that not only did you defeat the most evil being in the world, but you've been returned to us!" The large man started laughing as he looked them over. "This is a red letter day for enemies of justice everywhere!"
Lina mentally groaned as she listened to Phil. Not that she had anything against his enthusiasm, but it reminded her... Way too much about those stupid magic girl animes from back home.
"I guess there's one thing that bothers me, sis..." Luna spoke up and gave her sister a flat stare. "Just what the hell did you do?"
"Put the whole universe at risk because I couldn't figure any other way to defeat an enemy that could warp reality to how he sees fit." Lina said flatly. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw Nanoha tense up, at least Fate was there gripping her shoulder and getting her to relax. "Do you think I'm so careless that I would use something like that for no reason?"
"Yes." Luna said flatly causing Lina to groan in dismay.
"Be nice to your sister, Luna."
"Sorry, dad." Luna looked away, uncomfortable. Despite everything, her parents still could order her around with no problem. Must have been something that parents had over their children, she decided.
"Miss Lina..." Amelia frowned softly as she looked between Lina and Shiro. "You said you were gone for sixteen years, but... How is that possible?"
"I'm not sure." Lina shook her head. "I was absorbed by the Lord of Nightmares, sank into the Sea of Chaos, and I'm lucky I came out of it at all. You tell me how it's possible." She always knew that this day was coming, she did, but she wasn't sure how to explain it all.
"I guess the Lord of Nightmares really isn't on anyone's side." Zelgadis spoke up softly as he looked at her. "Your eye wasn't gold last time I saw you. I'm guessing that the Lord of Nightmares did something to you before letting you live."
"Most likely." Lina nodded to him, glad he wasn't making a terribly big deal out of it.
"The next time you try to do something that stupid, Lina, try to give the rest of us warning so we can smack you." He deadpanned and Lina hung her head.
"I'd like to say that I could have given you warning. But you were, oh, I dunno, kind of dead at the time." Lina shook her head and looked at her daughter. "But, that's enough of that, mom, dad, you mind if Nanoha takes my old room for a little while?"
Her mother shook her head. "Not at all." She looked at Nanoha and frowned. "Oh dear, you look like you haven't gotten any good sleep, come along."
"Um..." Fate looked at Lina, who nodded, and she and Yuuno followed Nanoha out of the room.
"I think there's more to it than just letting your daughter get more sleep." Zelgadis said softly as he looked at the children. "She seemed absolutely terrified of something."
Lina wasn't sure what to say when Shiro squeezed her hand and smiled softly. "Thanks."
"Excuse me..." Zelgadis spoke softly as he looked at Arf, who was poking his arm. "Would you stop that?"
"Wow! You really are stone!" The little girl, in appearance, kept on poking Zelgadis' arm. "That's so COOL!"
"Cool?" Zelgadis blinked a few times as Arf nodded to him.
"Yeah! I mean, having a stone body would be really awesome, that way all the normal spells couldn't hurt you too much. And if you needed to be normal, you could just use transformation magic and..."
"Wait..." Zelgadis interrupted her. "Transformation magic?"
"Yep!" Arf grinned as she shifted from her child from to her adult form. "Kind of like this."
"Interesting..." Zelgadis was interested, if there was magic that could turn change a person's form voluntary, well, that was something that he had only thought Mazoku, Gods and Dragons could do that. Humans that could shape-shift?
Lina shook her head, she had almost forgotten that Zelgadis would do nearly anything to be normal again. "Hey, Zel..." A small smile came to her face as he looked at her nervously. "If we're still here in the morning," depending if she had traveled back in time or time went completely different between the pillars, "would you mind teaching these kids Astral Magic?"
He looked at her, then at the girl with orange hair and shrugged. He supposed that he could teach them some of his spells. He didn't expect them to learn much of anything, but if he could learn how to do that transformation magic, well, it would make his life a lot easier in the long run.
Anyway, seems that Lina soon will have to tell to her parents, Luna, and at least Zelgadis, the reason why Nanoha seems to the rest like if she has barely slept well, and the expression of fright on her face. Expect emotional downpour....not only on Lina's end....but maybe also on the side of Luna...
"Lina, dear." Lina turned as her mother came back into the room, looking concerned. "Can you come here?"
"Sure." Lina nodded as she left the room.
"I'm coming with." Luna spoke up. "I want to speak to you about something."
As they left, Zelgadis shook his head. "No one answered my earlier question." He looked at Shiro, then Chrono, then turned his head to look at Arf. "Just why was that girl so terrified?"
"Nanoha." Shiro spoke up. "Please call my daughter by her name."
Zelgadis nodded at the man. "My apologies for that." He wasn't worried about what the man could do to him, Lina was a different matter all together, but it paid to be polite at the very least.
"As for what happened," Chrono spoke up and sighed, "I can't tell you all the details, but back on her home world, Nanoha, Fate, Yuuno and myself ended up dealing with some powerful enemies at the time. During the fight, something happened that caught the attention of a powerful Mazoku, Lina said that he was a lord."
"A lord?!" Zelgadis and Amelia gasped as they looked alarmed and Chrono nodded, sighing softly.
"The lord and his... Priest, yes, I believe that's what she was, anyway, the two of them targeted Nanoha and tortured her mentally for a time before they finally decided to use her directly."
"But, Miss Lina's daughter?" Amelia looked troubled as Chrono nodded. "Why? No Mazoku does things without a reason and..."
Chrono held up a hand. "I'm sorry, that's not my place to say. If Lina and Nanoha wish to tell you all the details, they will. But when it was said and done, Nanoha was a horrible wreck and Lina blames herself for what happened."
Zelgadis nodded and shook his head. "I see." He could understand not wanting to talk about things. He never liked talking about his own problems very much.
(---)
"Mom?" Lina blinked as her mother opened the door to her old room silently and she smiled as she saw Nanoha sleeping, her face buried into Fate's chest as the blond girl hugged her in the front, and Yuuno hugged her from behind. The two were still awake and gave them a pointed look. Nodding, Lina stepped back and closed the door. "Let her sleep."
"But they..."
Lina shook her head and sighed. "Nanoha has terrible nightmares at times. They've been getting better, but last night was a pretty intense one." Plus just getting to sleep took her daughter hours most nights. She did find it interesting that when Fate or Yuuno was in bed with her, Nanoha fell asleep almost instantly. Six months just wasn't enough time to fully recover. Hell, it had taken her almost three years to get over being separated from her world, and she thought that had been fast.
"I see..." Her mother sighed as she looked back at the room. "If it helps her."
"Sis..." Lina turned and saw her sister looking at her, frowning slightly. "Can we talk, just the two of us?"
Lina jerked her head. "Outside then."
Watching her daughters leave, she sighed heavily, wondering why things had to be so tense between them.
(---)
After they stepped outside and away from the door, the two sisters stopped and stared into the air for a little while. "What is it, Luna?" Lina asked her sister as she looked at the Knight of Cephied rather tiredly.
"...You changed. You used to be terrified of me." Luna sighed as Lina gave her a flat stare, completely unflinching. "I thought you died off for real." She shook her head as her sister turned away and looked at the sky. "I never..."
"I know." Lina said softly. "I know you cared about me, but I was stupid as a kid and after what you did, I was scared stiff of you. Honestly, I thought you'd be more angry at me for doing what I did and..."
"You idiot!" Luna growled and grabbed her sister, spinning her and hugging the redhead tightly. "Of course I'm angry at you! But I'm more upset that you went away like you did!"
Lina's mis-matched eyes were wide in shock as her sister hugged her. "...Sis?"
"I was stupid, and I was scared that I would never get to see you again." Luna trembled slightly. "Even now, it feels like I'm dreaming and that you're really gone and..."
"Excuse me." Lina pulled away from the hug and punched her sister in the jaw hard enough to send Luna falling to the ground on her ass. "That help?"
Luna groaned and rubbed her jaw. "Yeah, actually, it did." She blinked as Lina outstretched a hand to her. Grabbing it, Luna smiled at Lina, got up and hugged her again. "It's good to have you home, baby sister."
"Heh, I'm the older one now, Luna." Lina chuckled softly as she hugged Luna back. "You're going to have to convince mom and dad to have another kid if you want to call someone your baby sister from now on."
Luna shook her head. "No... You're always going to be my baby sister." Tears fell freely from her eyes as the two continued to hug. "Even if you're older than me."
"Nnngh... Damn." Lina sniffled slightly. "You're a sap, you know that?" Lina broke the hug and smirked at Luna. "I guess we may just have to tell mom and dad to have another kid, otherwise people will find it weird that you're calling someone older than you your baby sister."
The two looked at each other for a moment, before laughing and smiling.
"Sure." Lina nodded as she left the room.
"I'm coming with." Luna spoke up. "I want to speak to you about something."
As they left, Zelgadis shook his head. "No one answered my earlier question." He looked at Shiro, then Chrono, then turned his head to look at Arf. "Just why was that girl so terrified?"
"Nanoha." Shiro spoke up. "Please call my daughter by her name."
Zelgadis nodded at the man. "My apologies for that." He wasn't worried about what the man could do to him, Lina was a different matter all together, but it paid to be polite at the very least.
"As for what happened," Chrono spoke up and sighed, "I can't tell you all the details, but back on her home world, Nanoha, Fate, Yuuno and myself ended up dealing with some powerful enemies at the time. During the fight, something happened that caught the attention of a powerful Mazoku, Lina said that he was a lord."
"A lord?!" Zelgadis and Amelia gasped as they looked alarmed and Chrono nodded, sighing softly.
"The lord and his... Priest, yes, I believe that's what she was, anyway, the two of them targeted Nanoha and tortured her mentally for a time before they finally decided to use her directly."
"But, Miss Lina's daughter?" Amelia looked troubled as Chrono nodded. "Why? No Mazoku does things without a reason and..."
Chrono held up a hand. "I'm sorry, that's not my place to say. If Lina and Nanoha wish to tell you all the details, they will. But when it was said and done, Nanoha was a horrible wreck and Lina blames herself for what happened."
Zelgadis nodded and shook his head. "I see." He could understand not wanting to talk about things. He never liked talking about his own problems very much.
(---)
"Mom?" Lina blinked as her mother opened the door to her old room silently and she smiled as she saw Nanoha sleeping, her face buried into Fate's chest as the blond girl hugged her in the front, and Yuuno hugged her from behind. The two were still awake and gave them a pointed look. Nodding, Lina stepped back and closed the door. "Let her sleep."
"But they..."
Lina shook her head and sighed. "Nanoha has terrible nightmares at times. They've been getting better, but last night was a pretty intense one." Plus just getting to sleep took her daughter hours most nights. She did find it interesting that when Fate or Yuuno was in bed with her, Nanoha fell asleep almost instantly. Six months just wasn't enough time to fully recover. Hell, it had taken her almost three years to get over being separated from her world, and she thought that had been fast.
"I see..." Her mother sighed as she looked back at the room. "If it helps her."
"Sis..." Lina turned and saw her sister looking at her, frowning slightly. "Can we talk, just the two of us?"
Lina jerked her head. "Outside then."
Watching her daughters leave, she sighed heavily, wondering why things had to be so tense between them.
(---)
After they stepped outside and away from the door, the two sisters stopped and stared into the air for a little while. "What is it, Luna?" Lina asked her sister as she looked at the Knight of Cephied rather tiredly.
"...You changed. You used to be terrified of me." Luna sighed as Lina gave her a flat stare, completely unflinching. "I thought you died off for real." She shook her head as her sister turned away and looked at the sky. "I never..."
"I know." Lina said softly. "I know you cared about me, but I was stupid as a kid and after what you did, I was scared stiff of you. Honestly, I thought you'd be more angry at me for doing what I did and..."
"You idiot!" Luna growled and grabbed her sister, spinning her and hugging the redhead tightly. "Of course I'm angry at you! But I'm more upset that you went away like you did!"
Lina's mis-matched eyes were wide in shock as her sister hugged her. "...Sis?"
"I was stupid, and I was scared that I would never get to see you again." Luna trembled slightly. "Even now, it feels like I'm dreaming and that you're really gone and..."
"Excuse me." Lina pulled away from the hug and punched her sister in the jaw hard enough to send Luna falling to the ground on her ass. "That help?"
Luna groaned and rubbed her jaw. "Yeah, actually, it did." She blinked as Lina outstretched a hand to her. Grabbing it, Luna smiled at Lina, got up and hugged her again. "It's good to have you home, baby sister."
"Heh, I'm the older one now, Luna." Lina chuckled softly as she hugged Luna back. "You're going to have to convince mom and dad to have another kid if you want to call someone your baby sister from now on."
Luna shook her head. "No... You're always going to be my baby sister." Tears fell freely from her eyes as the two continued to hug. "Even if you're older than me."
"Nnngh... Damn." Lina sniffled slightly. "You're a sap, you know that?" Lina broke the hug and smirked at Luna. "I guess we may just have to tell mom and dad to have another kid, otherwise people will find it weird that you're calling someone older than you your baby sister."
The two looked at each other for a moment, before laughing and smiling.